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You can smile when your heart is breaking because you're a woman.

Philippa Gregory

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Philippa Gregory
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: January 9
Novelist
Writer
Kenya's capital
Kate Wedd
Breaking
Smile
Woman
Heart

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I am in the interesting position of being sometimes skimmed by the critics and called literature and sometimes called historical fiction.
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Stars in the night,' he said. 'Something something something something, some delight
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I believe in me, in my view of the world. I believe in my responsibility for my own destiny, guilt for my own sins, merit for my own good deeds, determination of my own life. I don't believe in miracles, I believe in hard work.
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Wealth means nothing at all if you do not know, to the last penny, what your fortune is. You might as well be poor if you do not know what you have.
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Yes, but either way, shamed or not, I shall be Queen of England, and this is the last time you will sit in my presence.
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It is not love that matters, Mistress Boy, it is what you choose to do with it. What’d you choose to do with yours?
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The sons of York will destroy each other, one brother destroying another, uncles devouring nephews, fathers beheading sons. They are a house which has to have blood, and they will shed their own if they have no other enemy.
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He had taken George, my beloved George, from me. And he had taken my other self: Anne.
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Plainly, she is quite besotted by him,... a girl, a young girl, and she is falling in love for the first time in her life. ...little Kitty Howard at a loss, stumbling in her speech, blushing like a rose, thinking of someone else and not herself is to see a girl become a woman.
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Take care with your words, Jacquetta, especially in cursing. Only say the things you mean, make sure you lay your curse on the right man. For be very sure that when you put such words out in the world they can overshoot-like an arrow, a curse can go beyond your target and harm another. A wise woman curses very sparingly.
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I have given my word that only death will take me from you.
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If there is love enough,then nothing-not nature, not even death itself- can come between two who love each other.
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War does not answer war, war does not finish war. The only ending is peace.
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I wanted the heat and the sweat and the passion of a man that I could love and trust. And I wanted to give myself to him: not for advantage, but for desire.
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... all that that I learn just teaches me that I know nothing.
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...Your trouble, William, is that you have no ambition. You don't see that there is in life only ever one goal.' 'And what is that?' More', George said simply. 'Just more of anything. More of everything.
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I am too dark in my heart tonight.
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When a man wants a mystery, it is generally better to leave him mystified. Nobody loves a clever woman.
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Once more, I am watching the most powerful men in the kingdom bring their power to bear on a woman who has done nothing worse than live to the beat of her own heart, see with her own eyes but this is not their tempo nor their vision and they cannot tolerate any other.
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Good god what men can do to their brains when their cocks are hard.
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